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Google fined $57 million

Google has been fined by a French regulator for breaking new European laws aimed at protecting people's data. The company hasn't kept users "sufficiently informed" about how it collects data to personalise advertising, according to the regulator.

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France has fined Google $57 million for breaching new European Union laws on data and content. It's the biggest penalty so far for breaking the laws. French prosecutors said Google was not clear enough about how it was using people's personal information to target them with adverts.

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